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2/25/08

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February 25th 2008
Hey guys, So the first few pictures are from a couple weekends ago when we went to Tivoli. It is a pretty small, quiet town with very beautiful gardens. The most famous of which is the Garden of 100 fountains. Most of my pictures of Tivoli are from there. So this past Friday we took a class trip to Siena. As always, we saw churches and the like taking tours from some of our professors an ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more